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The ‘Votes for Women’ movement was incredibly creative in the strategies it employed to get its message through to those in power – including exploiting a rather curious quirk of the postal system, as Dr Naomi Paxton explains. For more fascinating slices of cultural history, listen to Essential Classics' Time Traveller feature every weekday morning after 10. The music in this clip is Ethel Smyth's Serenade in D performed by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Odaline de la Martinez. The image is from the LSE Library.